A new study* confirms that has long been suspected: men in banking are disproportionately promoted because they hang around with other more senior men in social spaces. Undertaken by Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Trugli at Harvard Business School and the […]
Comme nous nous en faisions l’écho récemment, Deutsche Bank demande à ses effectifs quittant Londres pour Francfort d’accepter une réduction de salaire de 25%. Si plusieurs voix se sont élevées pour dénoncer une mesure injuste, les chiffres de Goldman Sachs […]
This is going to sound sexist, but I attend a lot of conferences and it always disillusions me when I see stands filled with attractive women whose main purpose seems to be gaining the attention of the opposite sex for […]
If you’re struggling with the lack of human interaction when you’re applying for graduate banking jobs that use Pymetrics tests and Hirevue interviews for the initial screening stages, a reprieve is at hand. Mizuho International, the Japanese investment bank in London, is sticking with human interviewers […]
2020 has been a tough year for mergers and acquisitions bankers, as Covid 19 has put deals on hold and travel bans have confined rainmakers to peddle their charm to clients on endless Zoom calls, rather than taking them to the […]
After several happy weeks sitting in front of computer screens at home, crunch time is approaching for banks’ virtual interns. At Goldman Sachs and elsewhere, internships finish this week. It will soon be apparent whether people are actually getting offers to return next […]
Deutsche Bank has become better known for redundancies rather than recruitment over the past 12 months. After a pause due to the coronavirus, the firm is now pressing ahead with the 18,000 global layoffs that it announced last August. In Asia, however, […]
Just because no one has visited the zoo in quite some time, it does not mean that wild animals no longer exist. Similarly, just because you are no longer physically in the office, do not assume that all the political […]
Le Japon ne manque pas de traitements de bien-être traditionnels et novateurs que les occidentaux non initiés regardent d’un mauvais œil. Certains ont même des réactions viscérales face à l’otonamaki qui est une forme relativement nouvelle de thérapie physique et […]
When bonuses are awarded for 2020, it seems almost inevitable that they will be substantially lower than in 2019 – despite the misplaced excitement of some traders. Once, this would have induced shrieks of rage. It may still, but the reality is that COVID-19 […]
